How a Strong Site Plan Can Make or Break School Construction
When a project breaks ground in your own city, it always gets people talking. That’s exactly what happened with the recent expansion at Holy Spirit Parish in Grand Rapids. The project adds new classrooms, updates existing areas, and connects the Child Development Center to the main school building. While most people see “new construction,” civil […]
How Do Traffic Engineers Prevent Disaster Shutdowns?
When a major structure fails, every second matters. We saw this clearly with the recent Francis Scott Key Bridge collapse in Baltimore. Federal investigators found that a single loose wire on the cargo ship caused a power blackout, which led to the deadly crash. Six workers died, traffic froze for days, and the rebuild will […]
GNSS Outages? Construction Engineering Has Answers
When you think of construction engineering, you picture blueprints, concrete, and machinery—not solar flares. Yet, during this week’s NOAA-issued G4 geomagnetic storm watch, surveyors and engineers across Grand Rapids learned how space weather can throw job sites into chaos. GPS rovers dropped signals. RTK fixes drifted. Machine control systems froze mid-grade. For a city growing […]